Looking at the spears of the soldiers in the iron spear capital below, several people stepped on strange steps in a group, and easily stabbed the Tubo cavalry galloping towards them off their horses. Li Xuanqing nodded thoughtfully, this kind of relying on small formations against cavalry should be the reason why iron spears can stand proudly in battles until they become the mainstay of the Lingwu Army. Compared to the Modao team, which won with pure violence, they relied on skill to complete the killing.

The iron spears of 5,000 men rushed into the ranks of the cavalry, riding on foot, spears or stabbing soldiers or smashing horses' legs, and in an instant the Tubo people, who had already been engaged in the fifth battalion, were defeated in a hurry. This one-size-fits-long spear has few rivals in this terrain. When the cavalry lost its speed, it became a living target. And the tactics of the Iron Spear Capital are like a small knife, constantly moving, cutting the fat of the Tubo people into small pieces, and then drowning them little by little.

With the defeat of this cavalry, Lone Eagle Ridge ushered in a brief lull. And just when Wan Yi and Xue Wanli began to reorganize their troops and prepare for another battle, Sang Xiong also led the Chinese army and the rear army to the battlefield. It's just that after witnessing the corpses all over the ground in front of Lone Eagle Ridge, his face suddenly sank to the extreme. And Hui Ri's story made Sang Xiong feel incredible, the Mo Dao team of the Anxi Army actually appeared here? Is this possible? You must know that Anxi was completely annihilated by the Tubo people in Qiuzi back then, how could there be thousands of Mo swordsmen left?

In fact, Sang Xiong mistook the time in a hurry. Even if the Anxi Army left behind the Mo Dao Hand, a hundred and ten years have passed, it has long been ancient, how can it still exist now? However, this mistake did not affect his judgment, he still attached great importance to the report of his henchmen and generals, and then looked at this open space surrounded by small hills, which was only less than two miles in radius, and instantly had an idea.

"Mobilize the sharpshooters of the whole army to shoot at the opponent, and let the rear army load and unload catapults in the open space in front of them, ready to shoot. Then let the warriors dismount and attack on foot. Mulberry Bear looked at the strange terrain here and ordered categorically.

But these words were like a thunderbolt in Huiri's ears, and he hurriedly stopped: "General, no. When the warriors lose their horses, they lose their legs, and once their speed drops, they will be shot by the enemy on the opposite side as an antelope. ”

Sang Xiong knocked Hui Ri to the ground with a whip, and said angrily: "The cavalry target is too big, the archers on the opposite side don't need to aim at all, their advantage is too great." Warriors who dismount are slow, but they are not easy to kill, you know? After speaking, he ignored Hui Ri, and directly began to blow the trumpet to gather troops and prepare to attack again.

Wan Yi looked at the catapult that began to be assembled on the opposite side, and smiled coldly, it seems that the general of the Tubo people has really learned the lessons of the past and is really going to conquer Lingzhou City. However, he used Lone Eagle Ridge as a city wall, I'm afraid it was wishful thinking. It's just that the number of people on the other side makes Wan Yi feel very helpless, although the previous results were very fruitful, but in the face of the troops that are still twice as many as himself, Wan Yi doesn't know what else Li Xuanqing on the top of the mountain can do.

But now is not the time to think about this, Wan Yi adjusted the heavy armor battalion to the best state and quietly waited for the opponent's attack.

I saw the horns of the bulls under the mountain one after another, and between the shouts and responses, the dense Tubo people collectively gave up their war horses, and started a new round of attack on foot with cowhide shields, and the archers also began to bend their bows and arrows.

The tricks on the side of the Tiance army were still the same, the ballista bows and arrows opened the way, and the flying arrows on both sides completely obscured the open space in the middle. Unlike the heavy plate armor of the Wan Yi Heavy Armor Battalion, which could withstand most of the arrows, the casualties of Xue Wanli's Fifth Battalion began to increase. The Tibetan cavalry played its own advantage at this moment. Su He on the mountainside desperately mobilized the ballista to support the fifth battalion, the thick crossbow arrows almost did not stop, and the sound of the machine spring pulling was no longer one after another, but one after another, and the mountains of crossbow arrows in front of the auxiliary soldiers were also rapidly decreasing.

Li Xuanqing watched the sudden nervous situation at the foot of the mountain, his right hand was released and clenched, and he still did not give a new order after repeating it many times, but watched Sang Xiong's tactics coldly, and his face became serious, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xue Wanli, who was directly under pressure, suddenly roared, gathered more than 2,000 people from the fifth battalion of the personal guard to launch a counter-charge, and rushed directly to the front under the surprise of the opponent. At this moment, it was suddenly put on the battlefield, and suddenly I only saw the long knife waved, bringing up the boundless bloody rain, these soldiers holding copper shields and Tang knives were on the battlefield, and the sword light caused them to be invincible, and they relied on the bravery and fierceness of the Han people in the northwest to firmly block the attack of the Tubo people with inferior troops, and pressed the battle line at the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, the mulberry bear, who was personally in command, saw that there was finally a sign of a breakthrough and was suppressed by the other party, he was furious, waved his hand to let the catapult join the battlefield, and only heard the rumbling catapult smashing the temporary stones towards the Lone Eagle Ridge.

The idea is very beautiful, but Sang Xiong obviously ignored one thing, that is, the Tubo people basically do not know how to operate these Han siege equipment, the first few stones actually threw into their own team, only to see a piece of big stone smashed by the Tubo soldiers skin and flesh, broken arms and limbs, and the wailing even exceeded the shouting of killing for a time.

This turn of events made Sang Xiong realize his mistake, and hurriedly stopped these catapults, so that the horns resounded throughout the audience again, and more Tubo people began to flock to Lone Eagle Ridge to participate in the battle.

From Li Xuanqing's point of view, Sang Xiong's Chinese army has already taken over the battle of the previous army, and the new more than 20,000 people are the main force preparing to invade Lingzhou this time. At that moment, seeing that the dense crowd of people had completely filled this empty space, he immediately no longer hesitated, and a fiery red order flag in his right hand suddenly waved, and the drumbeat of the war drum corps suddenly became weird. And this pre-agreed drum beat also made the morale of the soldiers on the front line suddenly high. Before the war, officers at all levels had already said the significance of this kind of drumbeat, so whether it was the personal guards of the fifth battalion breaking into the enemy's formation or the iron spear of the heavy armored battalion that was responsible for moving forward to contain them, they almost all started a desperate assault at this moment, almost not caring about their own casualties, even if they died, they had to pull the opponent's back, and the bloody killing almost reached its peak with the change of the drum beat.

And all this in the eyes of Sang Xiong has become a sign that the other party is going to turn into a decisive assault, as long as this wave is passed, the other party will definitely collapse, so it is almost without thinking about it, he seized the time to urge the follow-up troops to follow up and carry out a surprise follow-up.

It was at this moment that the Hellfire Brigade began to appear on the stage of history. Inadvertently, Li Xuanqing opened the first use of gunpowder in the late Tang Dynasty, and it was also the first time that gunpowder was used in military affairs in this world.

I saw that after Su He heard the change in the drum beat, the ten special ballistas immediately put down their crossbow arrows and began to load the explosive pack. In fact, the ballista of this trait only replaced the card slot for loading crossbow bolts with a hemispherical groove, and replaced the direct fire spring with a throwing cable.

Su He personally put the fifteen-pound explosive bag made into a ball and wrapped in a layer of cowhide into the groove of each ballista, and the auxiliary soldiers on one side quickly lit the torches.

"Target in front, prepare, ignite, project." After a simple order, balls emitting billowing smoke suddenly flew up from the mountainside with uncertain flames, heading towards the center of the Tibetan phalanx.

All the Tubo people who participated in the attack didn't care what this strange thing was, even the soldiers of the Tiance Army didn't care, to be honest, except for a few people such as Li Xuanqing and Su He, no one would know what the use of this thing projected out in the air was for. So Sang Xiong just glanced at the dozen fireballs and didn't have any ideas, what he had to do at this moment was to urge more soldiers to step forward, withstand the opponent's last round of counterattack, and then harvest. He wants to catch the other party's main general and see if it is the remnants of Anzai's legacy back then.

And the projection of the first round of hellfire, Su He, did not grasp it well, and the explosives that ran out fell one by one, except for a few unlucky Tubo soldiers who were knocked unconscious, there was no other abnormality. The soldiers on both sides should fight or how to fight, the front-line war knives flew and roared constantly.

"Boom" But in the next moment, these landed explosive packets suddenly burst into a loud bang, fiery red fireballs rose with the explosion, and a strong whirlwind swept everything around the explosion point, and the sand and stones were shattered, scattering with the shock wave, shattering everything in front of them to the ground. Black smoke swept the dragon into the sky.

The Tibetan soldiers at the center of the explosion were blown to pieces, and those within a distance of 10 zhang from the explosion site were also knocked to the ground by flying sand and stones and iron filings prefabricated in explosive packets.

This change completely stunned the attacking and defensive sides, and the soldiers who were fighting on the front line even stopped, staring blankly at the change just now and speechless. And when the Tibetan soldiers in the middle of it suddenly realized that these damn explosions were what had just been projected, the commotion began.

But Li Xuanqing obviously did not let go of this slightest change, as early as the first wave of explosives packs were projected, the war drum team was also changing the drum beat, the rumbling drums spread throughout the audience, and the counterattack of the Tiance army began.

"Mo Dao Team, attack." Shi Jian, who had been waiting for a long time, raised the heavy Mo knife in his hand and took the lead in rushing down the mountain, and at this moment, the iron spear and Xue Wanli's fifth battalion also began to dispatch the whole army to join the counter-assault. The sharp increase in the number of Tiance troops also made the Tubo people feel the pressure for the first time, the front line where the two sides were originally fighting was torn apart in an instant, compared to other troops, the killing of the Mo Dao team once again made the Tubo people feel terrified, and the Xueliang long knife took away a life every time it was waved, and the rolling human heads fell one by one with these regional killers lined up, like watermelons were thrown to the ground casually.

However, these front-line battles did not affect Su He, almost at the moment when the first batch of explosive packs was projected, the second batch of explosives was placed, and then ignited and ejected. The more he throws, the more skillful he moves, and the better his aim becomes.

His crazy projectile will be a tragedy for the Tubo people below. I saw that the fiery red fireball exploded one by one, growing mushrooms in the sea of Tubo people below, this guy looked at the explosion he made, grinned and laughed, and jumped to his feet to command his subordinates to hurry up and continue to shoot.

"What the hell is going on?" The mulberry bears in the Tibetan army below were completely stunned from the first explosion, not understanding what it was that could cause such brutal destruction. But seeing that the fireball continued to rise, his soldiers were cleared and crushed by this explosion piece by piece as if they had been cleared, and they immediately gritted their steel teeth and roared angrily: "The whole army assaults, kill me, kill these devils from the region." ”

At this time, Hui Ri and other generals have gone to the front line, and there is a general in the Chinese army, naturally no one can stop the commander who fell into a rage, and the sound of the horn came out quickly, which also conveyed the anger of the commander.

But Sang Xiong forgot one thing, that is, the most terrible thing about this weapon that appeared for the first time was not its lethality, the first generation of explosives was filled with black powder, although in order to increase the power, relying on the range of the ballista, the explosives bag prepared by Li Xuanqing was unprecedentedly filled with fifteen catties of gunpowder, but at best, it could only affect the targets within ten zhang around, and the ballista fired explosives package was not good, and the lethality was not as great as the explosives of later generations.

The biggest effect of this explosive package on the battlefield is the psychological effect, and the pressure and psychological burden caused by the explosion and the fireball that rises in the air cannot be changed by words. After several rounds of explosions, the sea of people of the Tubo people began to commotion, although Hui Ri and others tried their best to suppress it, but they couldn't stand Wan Yi and the others with the fighting Tiance Army while assaulting and shouting: "Heavenly thunder descends to the world, kill the general and capture the flag." Even Li Xuanqing on the top of the mountain could hear the neat roar, and this shout further intensified the fear and restlessness of the Tibetan soldiers.

"Su He, immediately project at those Tubo people who are disobedient and continue to advance, and don't bomb them for the time being for those who retreat, where there are more people." Li Xuanqing's figure quickly floated to Su He's side.

Su He immediately understood what Li Xuanqing meant, and the ten ballistas he controlled began to focus on bombarding those diehards, only to see that for a while, the explosion point began to concentrate in the crowd surging forward, and only to see the dense fireball set off an boundless whirlwind, and many people were thrown into the air by this dense explosion.

At this moment, the Tubo army was finally completely blown up, and after the striker was killed, the follow-up men and horses did not continue to rush forward as before, but retreated like a tide.

"Order the whole army to assault the entire Chinese army, the core of the other side." Under Li Xuanqing's roar, the war drum team beat the war drums with all their might, and the rumbling drums urged the soldiers of the Tiance Army to move forward bravely. At the same time, the wolf smoke that had been prepared long ago on the top of the mountain began to ignite, and huge columns of colored smoke rose into the sky.

The guards, who had been lying in ambush in a mountain col ten miles away, saw this pillar of colored smoke and stepped on their horses and began a furious assault.

And just when the Tiance Army was busy with the assault, Sang Xiong saw that his team was defeated like a tide, and his face suddenly turned extremely pale. But in the next moment, Sang Xiong suddenly roared: "The Warlord team stopped this group of guys who have lost their courage for me, we have to counterattack, defeat them, and kill." ”

Hundreds of people from the Overseer team rushed forward, and after killing hundreds of people in a row, they finally stopped the decline temporarily, and Sang Xiong was about to charge but was knocked down again, only to see an explosive bag appear in front of the Overseer team at some point.

"Nope." Before the bear could shout, the Overseer was gone, and after the loud bang, thick smoke covered the area for a long time, but no one came out of the smoke. With a bang, Mulberry Bear's scimitar fell to the ground with a crisp sound.